Is playing an attack with the reversal keyword during your turn consedered plying a reversal. Say for one of Chung Li ablity from the first set.

not on its own. however it is still a reversal. So it wont trigger "played as a reversal" effects but it will trigger "if this reversal does X" or "your reversal".

However, If you attack someone on your turn, they block and reverse, and then you block you may now reverse on your turn, so it is possible.

OK So her ability says when you play a reversal. So when can it trigger

cerebralcortex said:

After your opponent plays an attack, and you successfully play a block, after the block and any applicable damage is resolved from that attack there is a window for you to play a reversal.

Reversals can be played on your opponents turn. Or if your opponents has played a reversal against you on your turn, you can inturn play a reversal against their reversal.

cerebralcortex said:

for THAT ability, it works.

there's a difference between "playing a reversal" (which is playing any card with the keyword)

-and-

"playing a card as a reversal" (using the R named "Reversal" after an opponent's attack that has been blocked has resolved)

example: i used that chun li to win the water element event by using an infinite loop of cheap water attacks that had reversal (strike heads) and Getting an Education and Shinobi Tradition. play attack, get momentum from chunz, deal damage, pick up attack with GaE, lather rinse repeat.

Ok so when you play any card with the keyword reversal, you are playing a reversal. When you play a card after a block, that is playing a card as a reversal. So when the version of Chun Li attacks and it has the key word reversal you can add a momentum.

You can't play just any card after you block an attack. You have to have a reversal attack in your hand to be able to attack with it after blocking an attack (after making the check and everything too).

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I understand you can only play cards with reversal on them after a block. That was not what I was trying to find out. It was just if her ability triggered when playing a crad with reversal as an attack on her turn.

If the card has Reversal on it, and you play it as an attack, not as a block, Chun-Li can add a momentum. If you use an ability that somehow allows you to play an attack without the Reversal keyword 'as a reversal' then you cannot add a momentum.

Basically, no matter how you play it, as long as it's as an attack (not a block) and has the Reversal keyword, Chun-Li can get some momentum.

Very good questions, cerebralcortex. These are the kinds of questions that have been around since the game was created.

In case you didn't know, GouHadou is one of our Q&A Rules Arbiters. His answers are official. (I've seen some new folks get bombarded by a sea of sometimes contradictory answers and not know who to believe.)

To clarify, in case it helps:

Reversal is a Keyword Ability. Keyword abilities are also Keyword Traits. This means that a card with "Reversal" not only has the Reversal ability, but it is "a reversal attack" or simply "a reversal," and abilities that key off playing a reversal will trigger when it's played (just like abilities that key off playing a punch will trigger when you play Shinku Shoryuken). (See new.fantasyflightgames.com/edge_news.asp , though it isn't made explicitly clear there.)

To play a card--almost always an attack-- as a reversal means to play it in response to the resolution of an opponent's attack you blocked. The Reversal keyword ability is the most common way to play an attack as a reversal.

On the subject of Keywords that are Abilities and Traits, a few more examples: A card with "Powerful" has the Powerful ability, and is "a powerful attack." Likewise, a card with "Multiple" has the Multiple ability, and is also a "multiple attack" (though not a "multiple" or "multiple copy"--those refer to the face down card generated by the ability).

Thank you Armed that was exactly what I was looking for. I knew the main mechanics of the game it was when are keywords used mainly reversal that I wanted to clear up. Know not to pick at the game, but shouldn't reversal be called counterattack. You are not really reversing anything.

Street Fighter games often use the word 'reversal' to define an attack that happens at the last possible second after something else happening, and other such times. http://www.eventhubs.com/guides/2009/jan/14/reversals-super-street-fighter-2-turbo-hd-remix/.

Not exactly the same as what it does in UFS, but the word reversal is about as good of a term that exists already in fighting games. I mean its an attack that happens right after another attack or a dizzy effect or getting up off the ground, so it pretty much makes sense as far as what fighting games have to offer as far as terminology.

When I look at it as fighting I look at real terms. So things like boxing and MMA. In real terms attack made after you have dodged or blocked an opponents attack is a counterattack. If it was a reversal it would now give you controll or in game terms end the opponents turn.

I dont actually care that reversal is the term used in this game or fighting games. It is just that it is a correct term for what it is doing. I just think it is funny I was not really complaning.